[pmwiki-users] Core and question marks

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:28:15AM -0400, Pico wrote:
> The one added twist I would like to accomplish is to be able to add a 
> similar span without necessarily having to provide an alias.  That's not 
> a huge deal, because you can simply use the Name variable to supply the 
> alias if what you want is the span without changing the displayed link, 
> [...]
> But for other (non-pagelist) links, it would be nice not to have to 
> supply an alias when you prefer just to use the page name.
> 
> Is there a workaround that I haven't stumbled upon?  

Not at the moment.

> I guess I could use the title, like this:
> 
> [[Group.Page|+%popup%This is the text to appear in the popup]]

This doesn't work (yet?), because '+' gets replaced with the 
title only if it's the only thing in the replacement text.

But we could perhaps see about extending the title markup to 
allow this, if the %popup% idiom becomes popular enough.

Pm